Writers’ Easter Eggs
It’s that time of the year and I started thinking off to one side, as I tend to. I know that software engineers and game developers hide little surprises in their stuff all the time. They’re called Easter Eggs. Some are legendary. In the 1997 versions of Microsoft Office,...
Writers Write: My Favourite Book 20
Gabrielle Williams Kate Bush made ‘Wuthering Heights’ required reading for every teenager worth her salt back in my day (it occurs to me that if I could get Kimbra and Goyte to write a song called ‘Beatle Meets Destiny’ or ‘The Reluctant Hallelujah’ – it’d up my sales hugely....
I Want the Moon Back
I’ve been re-watching the 1998 HBO series ‘From the Earth to the Moon’, and it got me thinking. We went to the moon. Can you get your head around that? We, collectively, as a species, went to the moon. That moon, the one way up there – we went...
YA SF Day
I’ll be appearing with George Ivanoff at Embiggen Books this Sunday at one o’clock. Come along for readings and signings and general author meetingness. ...
Writers Write: My Favourite Book 19
Gabrielle Wang In a corner of a grade six classroom at Rathdowne Street State School in Carlton, two books sat all alone. The year was 1936. One was Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. The other was Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson....
What’s 10 Futures About?
The best way to prepare for the future is to imagine it. In our imaginations we can anticipate where we’re going, where our lives might be, the shape of the world to come. 10 Futures is a very different book for me, a real departure from the wonderful Steampunk...
Comments
Just to let everyone know that I’ve implemented a feature to screen out all the robot spam I’ve been getting. If you’d like to comment, you have to solve a tiny arithmetic problem which will convince me that you’re a real person. Robots can do stuff like that! Thanks...
Writers Write: My Favourite Book 18
Simmone Howell When I think about books and my childhood, I see the cane bedside table on which all wonderful things were held: a portable radio, then later, a walkman, a jar of jelly crystals (for eating) and books. I was obsessed with memorising text from an early age...
10 Futures Book Trailer
And here’s the book trailer for ’10 Futures’, which will be released next month....
Writers Write: My Favourite Book 17
Sherryl Clark Like many people, a book that I remember clearly was one of the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis – The Magician’s Nephew. It was the first book I ever owned, as it was a present from my older sister. It was a while later before I discovered...